Bug#322227: tomcat does not start without tomcat4-webapps installed

[Alan Chandler]

Package: tomcat4
Version: 4.1.31-3
Severity: normal

Tomcat fails to start when the tomcat4-webapps package is not installed,
because server.xml file has a reference to the context tomcat-docs and
it doesn't exist.

Surely the options for this (allowing symlinks) should be in web.xml
inside the application?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tomcat4 depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.66           Add and remove users and groups
ii  apache2-common            2.0.54-4       next generation, scalable, extenda
ii  apache2-utils [apache-uti 2.0.54-4       utility programs for webservers
pn  j2sdk1.4 | j2sdk1.3 | kaf <none>         (no description available)
ii  jikes-gij [java-compiler] 1:1.22-2.1     Wrapper for jikes using GNU GIJ cl
ii  libcommons-beanutils-java 1.6.1-4        utility for manipulating JavaBeans
ii  libcommons-collections-ja 2.1.1-3        A set of abstract data type interf
ii  libcommons-digester-java  1.5.0.1-4      Rule based XML Java object mapping
ii  libcommons-logging-java   1.0.4-2        The commmon wrapper interface for 
ii  libtomcat4-java           4.1.31-3       Java Servlet engine -- core librar
ii  sun-j2sdk1.5 [java-compil 1.5.0+update03 Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition, 

tomcat4 recommends no packages.

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